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Appointment of Mitchell Daniels, Jr., as Assistant to the President for Political and Intergovernmental Affairs

August 12, 1985

The President today announced his intention to appoint Mitchell Daniels, Jr., as Assistant to the President for Political and Intergovernmental Affairs. He will succeed Edward J. Rollins, who will depart in the fall.

Mr. Daniels has been Deputy Assistant to the President and Director, Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, since March 1985. Previously he served as executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee in 1983-1985. He was administrative assistant to Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana (1977-1982) and chief aide to then Mayor Richard Lugar of Indianapolis (1974-1976).

He graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1971 and received a J.D. degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1979. He is married, has three children, and resides in Fairfax Station, VA. He was born April 7, 1949, in Monongahela, PA.

Ronald Reagan, Appointment of Mitchell Daniels, Jr., as Assistant to the President for Political and Intergovernmental Affairs Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/260383

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